Sunday, April 19, 2009

On this date in 1934, Shirley Temple made her motion picture debut in "Stand Up And Cheer!", which also starred Warner Baxter, James Dunn, Nigel Bruce, and Stepin Fetchit. The movie was escapist fluff for the Depression, in which President Roosevelt created the Department of Amusement to lift the spirits of the American public. And little Shirley Dugan was one of its secret weapons of mass distraction. Shirley Temple was portrayed on television several times, but this is a picture of "her" (played by Emily Hart) in "Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story". That TV movie was broadcast in 2001, a year in which America once again would need its spirits lifted....

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Just An Old Cowhand On The TiVo Grande

As the Trickster once said, "Reality is boring, that's why I change it whenever I can."
I'm just "The Man Who Viewed Too Much", and "Inner Toob" is a blog exploring and celebrating the 'reality' of an alternate universe in which everything that ever happened on TV actually takes place.
Most of my theories about the TV Universe come from thinking inside the box and thus can't be proven. But I've never been one to shy away from a tall tale.....
Remember: "The more you watch, the more you've seen!"